Why?Īnd tawdry and we don't want that muck on our airwaves? Then ban it outright and have done with it. Yet dedicated adult channels aren't allowed to show explicit consensual sex.
The other week, a leeringĬ4 documentary on notorious bestial porn flick Animal Farm included a close-up of a man's face while he had sex with a chicken. More recently, Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs (which features more real sex than most marriages) was broadcast uncut on Sky Box Office (another PIN-restricted service). Introduction of the R18 certificate six years ago. Hardcore smut has been legally available in Britain since the
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Yet since the show is broadcast on a restricted-access post-watershedĬhannel requiring PIN code entry (and a payment) to view, then who, precisely, are we protecting? The mugs prepared to pay to watch it? That's so circular it makes my head spin.
At the end of the day, they're still winos, still in public, still drinking beer. These regulations seem inherently pointless, like the American public drinking law that leads winos to swigĬans of beer from within brown paper bags. It's like an orgy that can't decide how rude it wants to be. Cunnilingus is shown in fairly explicit detail, while blowjobs are hidden behind cupped hands or strategically-posed thighs.Įxcept sometimes they're sort of not. It's OK to see an erect penis, apparently, but you can't see it penetrating anything. The end result is a nonsensical compromise. Pornstar cast are clearly having genuine sex - yet thanks to our hopeless censorship laws both they and the programme's editors are forced to perform a bizarre game of muckypup peek-a-boo as they do so. As such, I don't mind admitting I didn't find Dr Screw boring. Traditional for highbrow critics to feign ennui in the face of pornography. It is not clear why they should be interested in a softcore channel.įrom The Guardian Charlie Brooker reviewing Dr Who spoof, Dr Screw on the Adult Channel The Adult Channel is now being broadcast on Eutelsat 9A in a package for Germany.
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A lot of the softcore material on this channel may be seen in full hardcore on their sister channel, Private Spice (Note that this is the European Private Spice service on Hotbird not the horribly cut Sky Pay per view channel closed in November 2011.Ī long established softcore channel. Polish music channel with a little late night softcoreĪstra 2, Sky Free to air babe channel closed in December 2010. Misleadingly named, very softcore, babe channel also known as Xpanded TV 2. Long running softcore subscription channelĮncrypted subscription Associated with TVX Misleadingly named, strictly softcore, pay per view channel